Show TALES of oft o lire TRIBES Ry Dy EDIT lit EDIT I. I L. L WATSON The Tho Dakota Sioux I The Ideal Indian superb Indian superb of physique physique phy phy- mentally keen and aDd alert und and with a high bight stand stand- standrd and arlt rd of morals morals morals-Is Is a best beat typified ed by bytho a tho Dakota now ar known as the Sioux This magnificent people dominated ie tl i nil all the tile surrounding surround surround- t ing Ini tribes with the exception of ot the va Chippewa with S n whom they were wele e 4 continually at nt war r r This powerful 0 w e r fu I P tribe I In n Its expansion ex ex- pushed Its lis The Dakota neighbors s slowly 1 low o w I y Sioux a awn w tv n a y and the pressure even een affected af- af Voted the Sioux who ho resisted valiantly valiant valiant- ly Iy y but nevertheless retreated gradually gradual gradual- ly Iy y In a u southwestward direction tiny lug Ini ng before them the Cheyenne and th tb the S lown In La this manner they readied reached thin the Black JIma Hills country and here they the set settled The Tile Dakota was not exactly a confederation con conS federation yet jet It was made up of ot seven seven sev sev- en council fires consisting of right di divisions divisions divisions di- di visions each tach of which Is well-known well In history and history and with good reason Irom their first mention In tho the Jesuit Relations of 1010 1040 the Sioux tribes have titue been hern liberally Included In accounts of or orthe the country Their efficient fighters who ho feared nothing swept across the plains like hike prairie fires us as brilliant nudes destructive They made good copy even In tn those days The tully early historians also found much of Interest Interest Inter Inter- est t to write about In tho the persons of the Sioux for Instance n a chief was uns described In 18 1823 ns as being dressed In a a splendid robe of whitened buffalo skins lie He wore wore a necklace of ot grizzly bear claws clans and his leggings Jacket and moccasins moccasins mocca sins were of white skins ornamented with human hair In later inter years when the struggle white supremacy reached Its height the movements of the tho Sioux I tribes were a matter of or Intense Inter Inter- est Tho Tito who had moved farthest west were the tile principal division orthe ot or the Dakota people This great tribe was composed of seven others otherl of which the and were the last Sioux to go on reservations These tribes even defied the Great White Father and Insisted insisted Insist Insist- ed that they did not want gifts but the right to go to war and take at scalps alps as they had always as done The Ojal- Ojal lala another Teton tribe were the tho terror ter nor of f the frontier It It was said of ot the Teton tribes that they ha had all nil the Indian virtues of bravery cunning treachery and hos hos- They were foes to all but each esch other These wild Independent nt people held their land against the tho whites as ns long as they could and It Is Impossible not to admire them The Sioux uprising of ot 1802 1862 shows plainly to what lengths these people would II go Little Lithe Crow and the who had bad come Into more intimate contact with the whites than any other band tried to wipe out the settlers In Minnesota and whites were killed In this war In which several of or the Sioux tribes par par- Some Somo of the most horrible cruelties known to history were committed corn com by lIy the Indians at this time However not all the Sioux were so malignant It was a Yankton chief who warned the Minnesotans of the tho Impending uprising and saved hundreds hundreds hun hun- of lives thereby When gold was discovered In the mack Black Hills the tho miners who crowded Into Sioux territory precipitated a fierce outbreak We cannot blame the Sioux for resenting the Invasion of these uncouth and conscienceless s men but hut for tor the good of the growing states they had to be subdued Almost Al Al- Almost most the final battle of this period was Custers Custer's famous last stand on tho the Little BIghorn June Juno 15 1870 1810 which has hns attained such a prominent place I I I I In the tho history of ot the West Sitting Hull chief was the medicine medi medi- cine clue man of the Indians on this occa occa- sion slon The so called so-called called Sioux uprising of 1800 1890 during which Sitting null Dull was killed was the resul result resul of ot the Ghost Dance excitement It Is alleged that the Indian Indian In In- dian agents on the Sioux reservation were utterly Incompetent and the lack of promised rations a serious matter for people accustomed to rove as they would to provide pro for tor themselves was perhaps the underlying cause of ot the outbreak Hunger and fear tear are ver very real sensations and when In their trouble the Sioux heard that a revelation revels tion had bad been given their excitement led to the the outbreak This revelation from the God of the red men foretold a new dispensation when the whites would be driven out and the Indians would attain their former former for tor- mer status The songs and dances dance which the prophet gave Induced a I hypnotic condition and In these trances the Sioux became once more the magnificent lords of the land The awakening was harsh Sitting lull Hull whose holle strong personality had bad Im- Im hued his tribesmen and kept them In to Ina Ina toa a fever te of at unrest was dead and Gen Nelson A. A Miles rode Into the picture pic plc- ture lure Ills was also a strong personality personal personal- ity and he be had trained troops at hit his back S. S I Jill un western Newspaper Union |